Agitated Customer Leaves Note Expressing Feelings Against Tipping Servers

Opposing Views ^ | 06/04/2014 | By Dominic Kelly

[Responsibility2nd]

A picture circulating online shows what appears to be a note left for a server at a restaurant in which the customer rants about why they decided not to leave a tip.

Although the source of the letter has not been confirmed or reported, the picture has angered people all over, with many saying that a liberal-minded person had to be responsible for writing it.

“I do not tip anywhere because the law governing tipping causes pay inequality between servers and kitchen staff,” wrote the anonymous tipper. “My meal was made possible by an entire team of kitchen staff, servers, managers, and the establishment itself. Therefore, everyone involved should be paid appropriately out of the cost of the product I purchase. I find it unreasonable that only servers have legal rights to earn tips. Therefore, I do not tip and ask that the establishment raises the cost of food and drinks to pay everyone appropriately for their work. Tipping also encourages both customers and servers to stereotype and discriminate. Appropriate salary for servers should be the responsibility of the establishment and not the mood, or habit, or any random decisions of the customers.”

Sites like Tell Me Now have started to speculate who the letter could be from, and, according to them, it has to have been written by a liberal.

“It’s one thing to have certain beliefs when it comes to equality and what not, but to punish someone who did a good job for you because you think someone else is getting screwed is ridiculous,” writes the website. “However it falls right in line with the liberal/progressive mentality, which is bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator so that nobody feels like they’ve been treated unfairly. These people are going to be the death of this nation.”

The picture has now gone viral, and even though nobody seems to know for sure if it’s even real, it has undeniably sparked a heated debate on income inequality and wages in America.

 

[Hot Tabasco]

They don't. Cooks are paid more.

Not only that, if the customer walks out without paying the bill, the cost of the meal comes out of the server's own pay........

I accidentally walked out of a bar without paying my meal and bar tab one night. When I woke up the following morning and realized what I had done, I was devastated and embarrassed all day and couldn't wait to get back that evening and make it right.

The waitress was there and she said that one of the other people I was with took care of it for me........That was a big relief.

[Nifster]

You really do not understand the restaurant business. There is no line cook, chef (of any variety) or kitchen staff who is paid LESS than servers and waiters.

I guess you too are one of those who buy the idea of ‘income equality’....look at other systems and countries who have tried that. Better yet look at the civil service system...that tells you all you need to know

[GeronL]

I don’t give a crap about income inequality

[CodeToad]

“There is no law that says you cannot tip the kitchen staff if you so choose.”

Exactly. I like to eat at a few places where kitchen staff get tipped heavily. I’ve seen $100 bills be handed out for kitchen staff that are amazing. There was this place called Saffron’s that was simply amazing for food. At Christmas, the extra tipping was rather rich and well deserved.

[angcat]

Since the town my daughter waitress in has been invaded by illegals she is not making tips. They hate to tip the white girl. Especially they invading females who eat in the restaurant. I told my daughter to go find another job with a more business like clientele.

[notdownwidems]

Gimme a dollar you cheap son of a b***h

Reservoir Dogs

[dblshot]

My meal was made possible by an entire team of kitchen staff, servers, managers, and the establishment itself.
You didn't serve this meal.

[ChildOfThe60s]

My daughter waitress-ed all the way through college. Here is what she told me. BTW, she never asked for any money the whole four years.

- She was very good. Made more in tips than any other waitress. She averaged $15-$17 an hour in 2000.

- She shared tips with the busboys and cooks (when deserved of course). Guess whose tables always had the best food and service?

- She often stayed after closing and helped bus tables and sometimes assisted in the kitchen

- She rarely said no when called to fill in for someone on short notice

- The lazy, selfish waitresses, first out of the door at night / never shared or volunteered anything, could never figure out why she made so much more money than they. And why she was so much more well liked by most of the staff.

When she graduated from college her people skills were very impressive. She learned to deal with every kind of person one can imagine. The waitress-ing years paid major life skills dividends.

Her only complaint was that because she carried gobs of small bills, occasionally someone would ask if she was a “dancer”. That used to get her mad.

Although it’s an imperfect analogy, I compare it to working piecework. Which I did building frames in a furniture plant in college and building fence sections for a fence mfg. Busted my butt like you wouldn’t believe.

[factoryrat]

I used to tip generously when I went to a bar or a restaurant. After they enacted the smoking ban in Michigan (at the behest of the bartenders and waitstaff), I stopped going to bars and restaurants altogether. Even if they allowed smoking in a restaurant, I wouldn't smoke inside. A bar is a whole different story. Now, thanks to militant, arrogant employees in the foodservice and hospitality industry treating me like a second class citizen because I happen to smoke, I will oblige them by not giving them or their employers the correct time of day, let alone my hard earned money.

[moovova]

Just about EVERY TIME we talk about Hank Johnson.

[WVNan]

There ya go. The restaurant where I worked for 3 yrs. paid the cooks very very well plus benefits. the waiters/waitresses got less than minimum wage and had to depend on tips to make up the difference. No benefits.

[trisham]

I tip 20% if the service is good. If it isn’t, I deduct accordingly.

[Nifster]

and so why won’t you tip? or is it that you never eat out? or that you never eat out at any place other than Zax’s or McDonald’s pr Wendy’s or Hardees or maybe Captain D’s??

[Mears]

Mt H.S. age grandaughter earns between $75 to $100 every Saturday and Sunday serving breakfast and lunch.

The location makes a big difference.

Good luck to your daughter.

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[DJ MacWoW]

Most people don’t realize how low and tenuous a wait staffs income is. The wait staff pays the difference if you make a mistake on a bill too. Most people assume that the restaurant/bar eats the loss.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Do they refuse to go to the hospital if they’re sick because the surgeon makes more than the janitor?

[DJ MacWoW]

Yup. The place I worked for in the mid 80's was the same. Except the cheapskate that owned the place deducted part of our tips from our paychecks because it was now "taxable". He only hired single mothers because he could bully them. He cussed me when I quit and said I was the reason he never hired married women. LOL

[IronJack]

I tended bar for a number of years, and while servers weren’t required to share their tips, if I worked the service bar and they didn’t, they could freeze in hell before they got any drinks from me. I shut out one particlarly nasty waitress once, and she was forced to spend her next shift walking clear across the crowded bar to the other service rail because I refused to work her orders.

I would imagine the kitchen staff in a decent restaurant could make life equally miserable for a selfish waitress.

[CodeToad]

What???!!! Surgeons make more than janitors??? DAMMIT! What is this world coming to!!???

[angcat]

Thank you!